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bcooke

Nah. Not going anywhere with that one. The voice of reason. You are waiting for backordered bolts from Jamestown as well? I had ordered some 3/8 x 2 bolts last month then forgot they were backordered and ordered them again. Now I have plenty and yesterday I realized that half of those I ordered sho...

bcooke

Hey, how come I don't always log in automatically anymore? When I access from an e-mail link I am sometimes coming up as guest. Only sometimes though, very strange... I will have to track this.
-B.

bcooke

My experience with heaters such as your "jet engine" has not been good. It will probably work okay for you but I have been exposed to lots of "salamanders" and just can't stand them anymore. I have become sensitised and develop allergic reactions at the sight of them. I did use a...

bcooke

Yep, same problem. The structure does looks great and makes me wonder if I should try the same. Does a structure like that benefit from any solar heating during the winter? My problem is that the yard owner won't allow any sort of heating inside. Electrical heating anyway, because it costs him too m...

bcooke

Remind me to never mess with Nathan... That was good, very good.

-Britton

bcooke

Tim and the merry bandits of Triton forest... Now that conjures up images of peaked caps, little green costumes and tights for me. How about a group photo?!

My imagination about what you guys look like in real life will be forever tainted.

-Britton

bcooke

I seem to remember Tim writing an interesting paragraph about the day the holding tank came out of Dasein. It was quite memorable.

-Britton

bcooke

Already submitted to the planning board (removing those silly drawers, I mean). I am thinking tool/spare parts storage and other items I don't need to get to every day. And like Mike said, use the lockers on the settee backs for the often used items.

-Britton

bcooke

Where exactly are you thinking of placing the tank? What about the tank Tim chose? I will be moving my tank at some point but I have more pressing needs at the moment. Have you thought about putting the tank in the deep aft part of the keel? It was suggested to me but I haven't checked to see if the...

bcooke

Wish I could say I was being sneaky but.... I don't know how I wasn't logged in. You boat restorers may be crazy but you don't miss a thing do you. I will have my boat in the water and at the NETA rendevous next summer. Mine will be the Triton with the chipped seasick green gelcoat, stained nonskid,...

bcooke

Nice! I am constantly amazed by the amount of money that is poured into a project boat. I have promised myself to get a job before I cut anything else apart- except maybe that freezer box - I really hate that thing. I still have a few weeks of putting together what I ripped out this spring. Then I h...

bcooke

Boxford is right next door to me. I hadn't heard about that boat. Nice looking boat, lots of opportunity to pour you heart into it. One question though. How does the integrity of the epoxy stand up to the high temps of a fire? If it looks okay, is it okay? or can the fire break down the epoxy at the...

bcooke

Congratulations! You finally decided to run for the President of the United States and thereby complete your plans for world domination (now where is that little red button anyway...) Considering our options this year I think you will be a shoe in. Failing that option I would say you are not being f...

bcooke

By the way, that is a great picture! How did you do that? I thought you would have spliced several pictures together but it looks like you did some other form of magic. There are no breaks in the waves at the splice(?) points.

-B.

bcooke

Now I know where to take my floating "Will scrape for food" sign. I also contacted the local paparazzi. Life for you will never be the same... Hey, next year (when I have a working boat again) let's get some boats together for a rendezvous[spelling?]. Your place looks good to me. Or maybe ...

bcooke

Are you going to explain RSS feeds at the end of this pole or must the little people remain in ignorance? Rumor has it your boat is coming out soon for a serious winter of upgrades.

-Britton

bcooke

Those of us who spent our summer grinding fiberglass care! We need to be reminded of why we do this.

-B.

bcooke

I would love to but I am really not sure if I am qualified. Maybe I should watch first.

The pay's lousy, but you get all the free coffee you can drink.

I know of another boat that will need some beauty work in a year or so. Okay, maybe two or three years. Maybe we can work out a deal? :-)

-B.

bcooke

Contact me off the forum and we might discuss your materials needs This and a few other comments recently makes me wonder if someone here is getting into the Online Marine Supplies business. The insidious plot to take over the world deepens... I REALLY should have bought epoxy in larger quantities....

bcooke

Another question about that hatch... First of all, it was with great pleasure that I cut out that big square hole to accept the same hatch that you (Tim) installed. It was a good feeling to look down through the monsterous hole to the propeller shaft and back of the engine and have all that room to ...

bcooke

You do have a deck re-core coming up though right? That should be exciting! My fifty pumps was for laying down the top skin of the cockpit sole after recoring it. It was fun and instructive but I think I saw enough to decide that a total re-core is a lot of work. It was satisfying to scrape out the ...

bcooke

My first epoxy projects on my boat were rather small and gave me a good chance to learn and experiment without ruining anything too big or costing too much money. Reading the instructions on the back of the cans (and in the case of WEST, their booklet) have worked pretty well so far. Today, while I ...

bcooke

Give your old genoa and cover to me. I will list it on Ebay and probably cover the cost of the new one :-) Seriously though, you will be looking at your boat with the nice furler, new well cut genoa and mainsail cover with that look of pride and satisfaction long after the pain of the purchase is go...

bcooke

I am thinking of stripping the boat, listing all the bits separately, and then selling the empty hull! Then I can buy a brand new Hinckley. But then again, my Triton has a lot more character than any Hinckley I have seen. Why have quality when you can have character? I don't fit in with that crowd a...

bcooke

or rather, dinghy... <note correct spelling>

-B.

bcooke

Hey Doug, I for one, am still waiting for an explanation of the "snowed under" comment.

Rain, I would understand. Have you been able to paddle through your living room in your dingy yet?

-Britton

bcooke

If this board was busier I wouldn't clutter it up with posts only remotely connected to boats (Tim, feel free to delete) but I have no one else to share my puzzlement with. I recently removed an Edson steering pedestal from my Triton and listed it on Ebay. I checked in tonight and the bidding has go...

bcooke

As I am learning how to use this epoxy stuff I have been sticking with the West System. I get the impression that there are better/easier/more specialized epoxies out there but West seems to be the standard others compare themselves to so I thought it was a good place to start my knowledge base from...

bcooke

Just reviewing some old posts. I could have avoided posting several quesitons if I had only spent more time sifting through these. Tim, did you paint your hatch cover or does the bare aluminum hold up pretty well? Paint would make it blend in better, bare metal just has that manly robust look to it....

bcooke

Thanks. I will remember that paste trick. I might have tried it when setting the knees in place. As it was, I had to screw in a couple of blocks and secure some braces while the thickened epoxy kicked off. Green's Point Boatyard in Ipswich MA. A hole in the wall storage yard on the edge of the marsh...

bcooke

And speaking of logistics... As I was finishing up that last post I heard a thump at the door. My balsa coring for the cockpit sole finally arrived! I was especially surprised to find the box contained a foam product that I think is Airlite B-5.00 instead of the balsa. Now this foam is twice as expe...

bcooke

No, no, no!!! Please! Well, that sure got your attention! I haven't learned to like polyester resin yet so I am glad to hear I can leave it on the store shelf. Are there any times when polyester is appropriate? As for the biaxial cloth, I thought it was used only in non-structural applications but ...

bcooke

I had planned to start the week by glassing in my chainplate knees using, as the book says, alternately layers of matt and cloth... and epoxy. While purusing a boat repair book over the weekend (kinda sick huh?) I read that matting and epoxy should not be used together - something about the bindings...

bcooke

My boat (#680) has a bronze plate over the shift lever hole with a screw out center section (back of shifter fits in slot) to access the shift linkage below. I am pretty sure that is standard for most if not all Tritons. I suspect some rebuilds have replaced that cover when converting to a different...

bcooke

What is up with that second mast idea anyway?! <smiling and shuffling to keep my crazy ideas hidden behind me> A boat doesn't need wood to have a soul. You just have to look harder to find it. I have one next to the garage and it takes me an hour every spring to get it ready to sail. Beware the dark...

bcooke

Yep, The cockpit sole is cored with 3/4 inch balsa. Or I think it was balsa. The coring looks more like something my mother used to force me to eat as a kid on cold mornings - some dark mushy stuff. After some drilling around I did find some white balsa (but still wet). Looks like a relatively dry w...

bcooke

Speaking of sloppy bulkheads. Today, I was cutting some tabbing away from bulkheads on my Triton and found that the bulkheads are cut about an inch shorter (all away around) than the hull. The tabbing carries all the load between hull and bulkheads. I had assumed that the bulkheads would be attached...

bcooke

I just counted 17 and the day is not nearly over yet...

bcooke

I would like to hear how the varnish comes up with a heat gun. I have done a fair bit of removing bottom paint with a heat gun on wooden boats. I wouldn't say it was any faster in my opinion but it is a lot less messy and noisy. It turns a miserable job into a boring job which is definitely a step i...

bcooke

Actually I did drill several holes and they all came up dry. I have been too distracted with other projects to grind away though and I thought the more drying time the better. I will report back when I have cleaned up that repair. I knew when I had half a dozen "topic reply" messages in my...

bcooke

They are not all hairy and smelly but that is getting us a bit off topic :-)

-B

bcooke

BTW

Should we start a pool on how many reply posts Tim will make within the first 24 hours of his return?

bcooke

I have yet to meet a woman ... regardless of how "outdoorsy" she claims to be, who would not rather use a full-blown, four alarm marine head than a bucket, porta-potty or worse yet, the stern pulpit approach While that is nearly true and is the primary reason that I am also deciding how t...

bcooke

I am not sure how big your money pile is and whether you could squeak one more trip out of your trailer but I ran into a similar situation. I bought a trailer sailer (or sailor... there is some strong feelings on the correct spelling around here) several years ago without a second look at the traile...

bcooke

Does that mean I am not sailing to the Bahamas next week?! Really though, thanks for the detailed reply and I will search the list for that description. Now that you mention it I seem to remember something about a talk on the placement of the ballast. I am glad to hear that the it is not an insurmou...

bcooke

#680, internally ballasted. I didn't get out to the boat today as the weather was rather wet and I had plenty of projects around the house. Water draining down from the ballast cavity can't be good. That would mean a complete path from inside to outside exists. There are signs of extra goop added ar...

bcooke

Well now I have gone ahead and done it. The bottom is stripped and ready to begin another thirty years of paint accumulation. At least I thought so... One of the advantages of stripping the bottom is that I uncovered several old repairs to the hull. About five feet of the forward edge of the keel ha...

bcooke

My apologies up front if this is just plain dumb

I would have to agree. That is about one of the best ideas I have heard for draining the ports.

Keep 'em coming.

-Britton[/i]

bcooke

By the way, I ask because my boat was built 12 later than yours (#680) I am assuming they are about as similar as Tritons get.

-Britton

bcooke

Welcome back Nathan. Hope the trip went well. I haven't removed my beam yet but I have gained access to it. I am surprised by how ill fitting it is. There is a 1/4 inch gap between the beam and the lower cabin skin along the rear edge and then the beam is tapered forward for about a 3/4 inch gap alo...

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